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Winner for 1943

William Dobell
Mr Joshua Smith

Winner: Archibald Prize 1943

Finalists for 1943

  • Harold Abbott - Patient Awaiting Plastic Surgery
  • James Adam - Self Portrait
  • Normand Henry Baker - Self Portrait
  • Rex Battarbee - Nabi Pinti Pi, Tribesman [sic]
  • Leonard Beck - The late Julian Ashton, C.B.E.
  • Gordon (1) Bennett - Wing-Comm Clive R Caldwell, RAAF, DSO, DFC and Bar, Polish Cross of Valor
  • Daysi M Brookes - Mr Wilfred E. Johnson
  • Daysi M Brookes - Miss Gladys Moncrieff as Sonia in "The Merry Widow"
  • Ernest Buckmaster - Lieut.-General J. L. Withem, C.M.G., D.S.O.
  • Ernest Buckmaster - Dr Cedric Roach [sic]
  • Maude EM Burrell - Shirley Metcalfe
  • Charles William Bush - Portrait of " The Artist, Phyl Waterhouse"
  • Charles William Bush - Portrait of Douglas Watson
  • William Bustard - "Tippo Powder"
  • Jack Carington Smith - Professor J. R. Elliott
  • Norman Carter - Pilot Officer A. Roulston
  • Norman Carter - Mr W. A. Crowle
  • Norman Carter - F. J. Ludowici, Esq.
  • Bess Chapple - Mrs Patricelli, nee Sylvia Davis
  • James Coleman - Portrait of James Forgood
  • William Gilbert Collins - Self Portrait
  • Archibald D Colquhoun - Miss Mavis Wilson
  • Archibald D Colquhoun - The Late President of the Senate The Hon. Senator J. Cunningham
  • Clara Cornell - Portrait of Father
  • Jean Cowtan - Portrait of Bill Thompson
  • James Crisp - Self Portrait
  • William Dargie - Portrait of Dr N. Hamilton Fairley, C.B.E., F.R.S.
  • William Dargie - Captain E. P. Harty
  • William Dargie - Lieut.-Col. A. G. Fenton, A.I.F.
  • William Dargie - Miss Campbell
  • Sylvia Davis - Portrait of Barbara Monroe
  • Aileen R Dent - Sgt. W. Geoffrey Smith
  • Aileen R Dent - Professor H. C. Summers
  • William Dobell - Mr Brian Penton
  • William Dobell - Mr Joshua Smith
  • William Dobell - Billy Boy
  • A A Drover - Portait of Captain Chaffers
  • Mary Edwards - Portrait of Miss Alison Oliver
  • Mary Edwards - Elizabeth Banks
  • Mary Edwards - Portrait of Nancy Bird (Mrs. Walton)
  • Mary Edwards - Portrait of Margaret Coen
  • Elsie Elder - The Hon. John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia
  • Albert Enes - The Groundsman
  • Albert Enes - Daniel Lamont (Ironmaster)
  • Nell Eveston - Marian Eveston
  • Joy Ewart - Mrs Lillian Ewart
  • Joy Ewart - Self Portrait
  • Alma Figuerola - Portrait of Nina Murdoch in costume of Pais da Vinho (Portugal)
  • Owen Garde - Most Rev. M. Beovich, D.D., Ph.D.
  • Reuben Gibson - Warrant Officer Cyril Bower, R.A.A.F.
  • Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Sister Metcalfe
  • John Barclay Godson - Mrs C. Green
  • John Barclay Godson - Lieut.-Commander (E) N. McGuire, R.A.N.
  • John Barclay Godson - Patricia Minchin ( Mrs R. Doyle )
  • John Barclay Godson - The Hon. P. C. Spender, K.C., M.P.
  • Paul Haefliger - Portrait of a Lady in Black
  • Henry Aloysius Hanke - Sister M. A. Thorney, M.B.E.
  • Henry Aloysius Hanke - Sister M. I. Anderson, G.M.
  • Henry Aloysius Hanke - Able Seaman A.H.G. Walker, R.A.N.R.
  • Henry Aloysius Hanke - Lieut. A. R. Cutler, V.C.
  • Olaf L Harris - Pixie O'Harris
  • H F Weaver Hawkins - One of the Coming Generation
  • John R Heath - Professor Arthur Amies as Major Amies
  • Edward Heffernan - Dr C. H. Kellaway, F.R.S.
  • John J Hennessy - Portrait of My Wife
  • Nellie Hennessy - Portrait
  • Sali Herman - A Gipsy Girl, Head
  • Nora Heysen - Col. Sybil H. Irving, M.B.E., Controller of A.W.A.S.
  • Nora Heysen - First Officer S. McClemens, W.R.A.N.S.
  • Nora Heysen - Group Officer Clair Stevenson, Director, W.A.A.A.F.
  • Leon Hogan - Professor A. D. Ross
  • Joseph Holloway - Roy Thibou
  • James Leslie Humphreys - Self Portrait
  • Mollie G Johnson - Lieut.-Gen. H. Gordon Bennett, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D.
  • Clement Charles Kennedy - Able Seaman N. M. Hewitson
  • Clement Charles Kennedy - Mrs S. J. Watson
  • Jack Noel Kilgour - The Misses Beatrice and Meta Blaxland
  • Jack Noel Kilgour - Miss Dorothy Kilgour
  • Jack Noel Kilgour - Portrait in Green
  • Edwin Harold King - Commander E. Kingsford-Smith, R.A.N.
  • Bernard Lawson - Portrait
  • Frederick William Leist - Mrs Frank Sturge Harty
  • Frederick William Leist - Sir Charles Blackburn
  • Frederick William Leist - Captain Gilbert Nobbs
  • John Evlyn Lynch - Self Portrait
  • Miriam MacRae - Portrait of My Son
  • Mavis Mallinson - Pamela
  • Mavis Mallinson - He Sent Her a Grass Skirt from New Guinea
  • Tempe Manning - J. R. Yule
  • Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Portrait of S. L. See
  • Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Self Portrait
  • Herbert McClintock - Self Portrait
  • Louis McCubbin - Study in Blue and Gold
  • Winifred McCubbin - Portrait of Vera Scantelbury Brown, O.B.E., M.B., Ch.B. (Melbourne )
  • Herbert W McCulley - Portrait of My Wife
  • Harry McDonald - Portrait of Aileen
  • Violet M McInnes - Miss S. M. Chinnery
  • Max Meldrum - Portrait of Rt. Hon. Sir John Latham, G.C.M.G.
  • Albert S Moriarty - Golden Tresses
  • Richard Morrell - Self Portrait
  • Arthur J Murch - Kenneth Wilkinson
  • Jerrold Nathan - Self Portrait
  • John R W Oliver-Clayton - Self Portrait
  • Thelma Parr - The Venerable Archdeacon C. N. Robertson
  • Reginald Parsons - Self Portrait
  • Reginald Parsons - Portrait of Len Ellens
  • Esther Paterson - Portrait of Barbara Newman
  • Esther Paterson - Rear Admiral Commanding Australian Squadron, Admiral B. Crutchley, V.C., D.S.C.
  • Clif Peir - A. B. Colin Browne ( H.S.D. ), R.A.N.R.
  • William R Plowman - Portrait of Miss May Smith
  • William R Plowman - Sgt. Cosgriff
  • Ina Pownall - Self Portrait
  • M Prowse Carey - Pat
  • James Quinn - George Bearham, M.D.
  • James Quinn - Howard W. Matthews, Esq.
  • Walter Rayment - W. M. Whitney, Esq.
  • Ingrid Rayner - Miss Nora Reid
  • Ingrid Rayner - Miss Muschi Kroning
  • Lloyd Rees - Portrait of the Artist
  • Freda Robertshaw - Mrs Rose Naylor
  • Hugh Robinson - Self Portrait
  • John Rowell - Portrait of Bernard Cronin
  • John Rowell - Self Portrait
  • William Rowell - Thelma Champion
  • William Rowell - Self Portrait
  • William Rowell - Air Commodore H. F. De La Rue, D.F.C.
  • Reginald Jack Shepherd - "Kol." A Native Missionary
  • Joshua Smith - Dame Mary Gilmore
  • Helen Stewart - Peggy Friedlander
  • Alice Maud Stone - Mrs I. Green
  • Graham A Thorley - Self Portrait
  • Graham A Thorley - Wing Commander C Fairbairne, AFC
  • Dora Toovey - Lieut. A. R. Cutler, V.C.
  • Lyall Trindall - J. C. E. McDonald, Esq.
  • Alice Turnbull - Garden Portrait
  • E A Douglas Watson - Self Portrait
  • E A Douglas Watson - Mildred Hill, Pianist
  • E A Douglas Watson - Despatch Rider Sgt. Rex Beggs
  • Trevor Gregson Wells - A. B. Edward Cuneo
  • Charles Wheeler - Mrs E. Rasmussen
  • Eric Wilson - B. W. Hone, Esq.
  • Rita Wilson - Lieut. E. F. Wilson
  • Joseph Wolinski - William V. McCall
  • Joseph Wolinski - Self Portrait
  • Joseph Wolinski - Lieut.-Commander John L. Graham, U.S.N.
  • Joseph Wolinski - Major C. A. Finley
  • C Dudley Wood - Self Portrait
  • Arnold Zimmerman - The Artist's Wife